What was your first lens?

[vitality]

My first lens was also a Schneider, bought used, an ex rent item, from Calumet Düsseldorf 2006:
Symmar-S 5.6/150 with Copal 0.
It has a "sinar" engraving on the barrel (not on the glass ),
maybe a selected lens or sold together with a Sinar camera?

However, it's a really good lens and
I still have it.

My 1st one was the same Symmar-S 150mm Copal 0. Got it in Cologne, when visited Photokina. Just mine is marked Linhof.

[jwanerman]

1988 150mm Caltar ( Rodenstock ) IIN, purchased new. I have used it on my Crown Graphic, Wisner Traditional and Sinar Norma, and have no plans to switch at that focal length. It is economical,multicoated, very sharp, and has good coverage for the intended use, mostly landscapes.
jwanerman

[mat4226]

My first was a Goerz 14" Artar that remains the sharpest lens in my kit to date. Love the standard perspective on 8x10, and hoping to someday mount this beauty on something a little larger.

[Oren Grad]

250mm Wide Field Ektar, which I bought in 1996 for use on 8x10. I found it a bit flat and flarey for my taste, and pretty quickly moved on to a 240 Apo-Sironar-S. I still own it, though.

[Vaughn]

1988 150mm Caltar ( Rodenstock ) IIN, purchased new...jwanerman

That was my second lens (about 1984, perhaps '85), bought new to go with my new Gowland 4x5 PocketView. A fine lens!

Vaughn

[Brian Ellis]

210mm Schneider APO Symmar bought from Calumet, the one and only LF lens I've bought new. Used it extensively for about ten years, sold it just recently as I cut back on my LF work.

[andreios]

My first, and still the one almost exclusively used on my 4x5 sinar was a 150mm f6.3 Fujinon - a tiny lens but offers enough space to learn about movements with a monorail.. The next is a 240mm G Claron, waiting for it's 5x7 camera

[Nigels]

First lens was a new Schneider 90/8 SA bundled with the Ebony RSW45 I got from Robert White. This was my first venture into LF.
When I added the 150/5.6 I realised the 90 was very dark and so replaced it as part of a part.ex deal for the Schneider 80/4.5 SSXL which I still use today.

[CP Goerz]

A borrowed 4x5 Calumet metal monorail with a 135mm Ilex Paragon in an unreliable shutter, not a great combo but it gave me enough direction to keep going into LF formats :-)

[Bob McCarthy]

When I moved up from medium format i went with the Picker twins

120 Super Angulon (or was it 121???)

210 Symmar S

Fred had a lot of influence over me in the 80's. I'd rush home if the wife (ex actually) called and said the newsletter came in the mail.

bob